Dean: President Bush Should Hold a Primetime News Conference on Scandal

[deadparrot]

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In the face of plummeting public confidence in his leadership, President Bush refused yet again to comment on the investigation into the White House leak scandal during a news conference this morning at the Summit of the Americas in Argentina. President Bush's refusal to answer key questions comes amid new poll numbers showing that his credibility with the American people is being undermined by his continued silence on the investigation into who in the White House conspired to manipulate intelligence to build support for the war in Iraq, smear opponents of that war, and cover up their smear campaign.

Today's Washington Post-ABC News poll found that just 40 percent of Americans view President Bush as honest and trustworthy, while 58 percent doubt his honesty. More than half believe the indictment of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is part of a deeper pattern of ethical wrongdoing in the Bush Administration. Sixty percent say Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove should resign. (Washington Post, 11/04/05)

Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean today called on President Bush to go before the cameras to answer lingering questions that have taken a toll on the American people's confidence in the President's integrity. Dean issued the following statement:

"The only way for President Bush to begin to restore his credibility is to go before the American people and tell the truth about who in his Administration was involved in this scandal and why he has failed to hold them to the ethical standard he established five years ago. When he gets back from South America, President Bush should schedule a primetime news conference to finally answer all the questions about who in the White House was involved in manipulating intelligence to build support for the war in Iraq, smearing opponents of that war, and covering it up. The American people deserve to know what role the Vice President himself played in the scandal, and why people on his staff who were directly involved in it were promoted, not fired.

"America deserves better than the White House's continued stonewalling on this very serious matter. That is why Democrats, and even prominent Republicans like Trent Lott, are calling on President Bush to meet the ethical standard he set for his Administration by keeping his promise to fire anyone involved in this matter, starting with Karl Rove."

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[tmooses]

1. He won't do it unless he gets scripted questions from the "selected

reporters", i.e., those who don't ask uncomfortable questions.

[kainah]

2. or if he gets to wear his listening device n/t

[BuyingThyme]

3. Scandal?

What scandal?

[bullimiami]

4. well of course bush cant do any of that.

they are all involved. the executive branch has been occupied by a crime syndicate.
bush is in it up to his grizzled salt and pepper noggin.

of course he can schedule another prime time lie session. \

i think dean is just poking his finger in the wound a little, to keep it irritated. he cant actually believe that bushco would do anything normal people would do.

[louis-t]

9. I agree. Same tactic Reid is using

by asking for apology.

[lyonn]

5. Yeah Dean, we want to know

Thanks for asking. Bush needs to come out of his spider hole and act like a President.

[Demobrat]

6. He'll never do it.

Face the cameras? Without a script? He'd lose it completely with 15 seconds, everybody knows it, any anything's better than that.

[drb]

10. That's why Dean is calling for it! He wants Bush to....

...flip out and go into a frothing, incoherently profane, vein-popping rage on live tv!!!

Now where's that popcorn? That might be a three-bagger!

[lyonn]

11. That's the day I'm waiting for

nt

[goclark]

14. I get it now!

Democrats should keep asking for it because it is something he can not /will not be able to do.


Nixon was a skilled politician and he could not pull it off, he tried but he couldn't.

Nixon had a brain and the Chimp's Brain now belongs to Jim Beam, Coke and I don't mean Coca Cola, jaw twists and turns, smirks, back packs, stutters, eye dodging and on and on.

Let's try to convince the American public that he would be great doing a speech.

[CottonBear]

7. Right. Like that'll ever happen. n/t

[msongs]

8. Great! Dems should challenge and keep repubs on the defensive.....

every day dems should demand the repubs tell us what they are hiding behind all their secrecy. the repubs should be challenged everyday in multiple ways, be kept on the defensive. "Everybody" knows the best defense is a good offense, right?

Why are the repubs so secret? what are they hiding, or the old hoary chestnut, if you did nothing wrong you should be able to say what you did.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/chinamart.htm

[fishwax]

12. oh wouldn't that be fun?

:rofl:

never gonna happen, of course ...

[paparush]

13. After the First Bush**/Kerry Debate...Bush will NEVER appear behind

a microphone without total control over the questions and answers. Period. He is un-accountable. Period.